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IBM Deprecating Linux Drivers For CXL Coherent Accelerators & CAPI Flash

IBM engineers announced they are deprecating the upstream CXL & CXLFLASH Linux kernel drivers with plans to then remove the drivers from the mainline kernel the following cycle

Before getting too worked up when seeing the "cxl: Deprecate driver" patch, this is about the Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) that predates the Compute Express Link. This is around their Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface for connecting POWER CPUs to GPUs, ASICs, FPGAs, and high speed storage. This series will be followed up with patches to remove the drivers and associated arch code, which I hope will be merged in the following cycle."

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